bugs on the barbie, May 9th 2010

nom nom nom

Dru and the red face strawberry adventure

What glrorious berries at the Vollmer Farm this year! Ernie and
Evelyn were more interested in staying behind and playing on the
airplane with daddy. So Mom and son went picking. We had a blast.
Didn't take long to fill the buckets despite eating as many as we
picked! Gorgeous boy. Gorgeous berries. Lots of strawberry recipes
being used at home!

"Dinner's Ready!"

Ernie with his nino-sore-nick announcing dinner is ready (he made
"salad" for us)

Evelyn looking intrigued

pan seared to perfection scallops with herbs from my garden

the next morning, pretty girl being pretty. :)

Vollmer 2010 plus a random funny pic

The first pic cracked me up.
The next pictures are from our favorite farm for berries and punkins.
This year we joined their organic coop - so we'll be getting most of
our vegetables there! Oh how I've loved watching the kids grow up
with this place in their lives.

Gene's birthday 2010

I love this picture of Ernie. Can't tell you how often I see that
look. The tres amigos blowing out the candle. Babygirl joins in the
fun!

Dru's report card comments, 1st marking period, first grade

Dru is such a wonderful, motivated student.  He consistently completes his work and makes wonderful choices for independent work.  He is reading well above grade level and can retell with accuracy and his able to discuss characters, setting, major events and make personal connections.  He is working on grammar work such as compound words, suffixes, and prefixes.  Dru also has excellent math skills.  He is able to problem solve with ease using addition, subtraction, and fair shares.  He has worked with geometric shapes and has a good understanding of squares, trapezoids, parallelograms, and hexagons.  In writing, Dru writes complete stories with a beginning, middle, and end.  He spaces between his words.  His stories are sequenced and complete.

December 2009

Dru's report card comments, 2nd marking period, first grade

Dru continues to work above grade level in all areas.  In reading, he is able to read and retell with accuracy.  He has good fluency and can discuss characters, setting, and major events.  He understands fiction and non-fiction texts.  In math, he is able to problem solve with ease and can explain his work.  He can compare two objects using the attributes alike and different.  He understands time to the hour and half hour. He can identify, draw, and name parallelograms, hexagons, trapezoids, rectangular prisms, cylinders, and cones.  In writing, Dru is able to write with a beginning, middle and end.  He includes all the story components such as characters, setting, and major events.  He includes details to make his stories more interesting.

(April 2010)

babygirl at rest stop

just.love.this.picture!! <3 Can I just freeze time for a little while?

Evelyn and the mancake caper

I will swallow the evidence. Don't tell me jokes to make me laugh!!

Ernie in the fishtank!

just love this picture. It's his reflection. I cropped him out because I loved the reflection even more. The expression is priceless, isn't it?

Pupit [sic] show - the first of many

What's a pupit show without a little benny hill-esque chasing around of the little man after the show is over ? :D

Babygirl welcomes Spring 2010

In an oh so Seussical way. Could she be cuter?